Sir Walter Stewart, of Lennox

Abt 1390 - 1425  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Walter Stewart
  Relationship	with Marion Murdoch Johnson
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1390
  Burial	Mar 1425	Blackfriars, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland   [1]
  Cause Of Death	24 Mar 1425
  	Execution
  Death	24 Mar 1425	Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland   [1]
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	2nd Duke of Albany Lord Murdoch Stewart           b. Abt 1362             d. 24 Mar 1425, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Countess of Lennox Isabella de Faslane           b. Between 1348 and 1374             d. Between 1458 and 1459 (Age ~ 110 years)
  Marriage	Abt [J] 1392
  Marriage Contract	[J] 17 Feb 1392	Inchmurrin, West Dumbartonshire, Scotland   [2]

  
  

  Children	1. 1st Lord Avondale Andrew Stewart           b. Between 1409 and 1425             d. Bef 1535 (Age ~ 125 years)   2. Arthur Stewart           b. Between 1409 and 1425             d. Bef 1535 (Age ~ 125 years)
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2020

  
  

  Wife 2	Janet Erskine           b. Between 1349 and 1394
  Children	1. Sir Walter Stewart, of Morphie           b. Abt 1410             d. Bef 1488 (Age ~ 77 years)   2. Matilda Stewart           b. Between 1409 and 1425
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Early Life Walter Stewart was the second son of Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany and his wife Isabella, Countess of Lennox. Career & Family Life Walter was styled "of Fife, Lennox and Menteith" after the death of his brother Robert. From TSP1: He had a papal dispensation on 26 April 1421 for marriage with Janet, daughter of Sir Robert Erskine, but it is probable it was never celebrated. By a lady of the name of Campbell he had apparently two natural sons, Andrew, Lord Avondale, and Arthur, and, possibly by Janet Erskine, another son, Walter of Morphie, from whom descend the Earls of Castle Stewart in Ireland. These three sons were legitimated 17 April 1479. See also the bio for his son Walter for a little more on this legitimation. Death Walter was executed at Stirling on the 24 May 1425, along with his father, and brother Alexander, for hindering the release of King James I from his imprisonment in England. Footnotes [1] The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol. 1, page 150

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 24 Mar 1425 - Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S0381] Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, The, (Edinburgh: David Douglas), 1904, Stewart, Dukes of Albany, Volume 1, Pages 146-155. [S0381] Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, The, (Edinburgh: David Douglas), Stewart, Earls Moray; Volume 6, Pages 313-322.